Mica Paris

Michelle Antoinette Wallen MBE, known professionally as Mica Paris, is an English singer, presenter and actress.

Paris was born on April 27th 1969, in Islington in North London, but moved to Brockley, South London, when she was nine. Paris grew up singing in her grandparents’ church, and by her mid-teens was making regular appearances with the Spirit of Watts gospel choir (with whom she featured on the 1985 EP Gospel Joy). At the age of 17, she became a backing vocalist with the UK band Hollywood Beyond. Paris appeared on their album If (1985). In 1988, she released her debut and platinum-selling album So Good with 4th & Broadway when she was 19 years old. “The Following singles, “My One Temptation”, “Like Dreamers Do”, “Breathe Life into Me” and “Where Is The Love” were singles.

The follow up album, Contribution, was released in 1990. This extended Paris’ soul and gospel influences to bring in hip-hop and house music and featured the title track as well as “If I Love U 2 Nite” and “South Of The River”. Her third album was Whisper a Prayer (1993), which included the singles “I Never Felt Like This Before”, ”I Wanna Hold On To You”, as well as “You Put a Move on My Heart. Paris released the album Black Angel on Chrysalis in 1998. It contained a cover version of U2’s “One”, and a duet with James Ingram. Black Angel produced two more Top 20 singles in “Stay” and ‘Carefree”. Mica released 4 more albums, If You Could Love Me (2005), Soul Classics (2005), Born Again (2009) and Gospel (2020).